On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 11:09 -0500, dimesio wrote: > David Bailey wrote: > > > > Do you know where to find this list - or better, which one contains wineboot.exe . > > > > Clearly the downside to spitting wine into many packages, is that it is messy to completely reinstall. > > Shouldn't your package manager be able to tell you what's available? I don't use Fedora, so I can't tell you the exact command. > This does it: yum list 'wine*' > Wine would have to be actually running show an error message, and by > then the damage is already done. > Wine does some stuff rather later than you'd expect. For instance, it doesn't seem to respond to "wine --version" without first creating a prefix, which rather goes against the UNIX philosophy: a program should always respond to the command line -?/--help, -v/--version options and report any invalid arguments and options before it does anything else. Martin
